Math Ed Workshops & Instructional Coaching
Shift attitudes towards math and significantly improve performance by empowering both teachers and students with genuine understanding and confidence. ​
Instructional Coaching & Workshops Highlight:
Vertical Alignment
Clarifying how key math learning develops allows teachers to understand how their grade’s content relates to previous and future learning, and supports the overall development of math concepts over the years.
Math Models
Visual models & manipulatives are powerful tools for learning across the grades, with the potential to develop authentic number sense, support genuine understanding, and foster independent problem solving.
Math Games &
Reasoning Routines
Math games & reasoning routines foster student engagement, genuine thinking, number sense, and math talk, and can be integrated into instruction in a variety of ways, including as warmups and centers/stations.
We work collaboratively to
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identify strengths and areas for growth
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set goals & develop strategies to achieve them
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structure PD to meet your needs - workshops, lessons, one-on-one & team teacher meetings:
Full & Partial Day
Workshops
Prep Period PDs
Co-teaching
Modeling Instruction
Guest Teaching
Collaborative Planning:
Lessons, Units, Games,
Assessment, Projects,
Curriculum Mapping
Curriculum Support &
Math Standard Alignment,
including Implementation & Orientation to New Programs
FEATURED WORKSHOPs:
MATH GAMES & REASONING ROUTINES
TRANSFORM UNDERSTANDING
In these full or partial day workshops, we introduce rich math games and routines to teachers and students.
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All games and routines foster math talk, develop strategies, deepen thinking about key big ideas, and highlight relationships between concepts. They are simple to play, and of course, FUN!
The games & reasoning routines have a number of versions, and can be adjusted to meet the diverse needs of your students, thus serving as valuable differentiation tools.
CONTENT & HABITS
The games and routines target essential mathematics and student habits. Workshop subjects include:
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Fractions
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Base 10 Place Value Patterns
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The Four Operations (+/-/x/÷):
fluency & relationships -
Area & Multiplication
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Math Models
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Student engagement & participation
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Independent thinking
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Word Problems
WORKSHOPS include:
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Meetings with teachers to
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play the games
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anticipate student thinking
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address foundational knowledge
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prepare to observe student play
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plan questions to foster math talk, highlight key ideas & deepen thinking
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Classroom time, to teach and play the games with one or more classes
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Time to debrief with teachers and plan next steps, including alternative versions & differentiation possibilities
Manipulatives such as base 10 blocks foster deep understanding and can be valuable tools for student learning across the grades, from place value patterns and calculating with multi-digit numbers in the early grades, to problem solving with decimals and percents in the middle grades, to factoring quadratic expressions into binomials to solve and graph quadratic equations in high school.
